Enterprise

Enterprise hosting,
run by people.

Managed infrastructure for organisations that cannot afford to gamble on uptime — dedicated private cloud, hardened networking and SLA-backed operations, designed, built and run by our own engineers from a Tier III certified Manchester data centre. No shared tenancy, no offshored support tier, no data leaving the UK.

What “enterprise” actually means here

Enterprise is one of the emptiest words in hosting. Plenty of providers apply it to the same shared platform with a bigger invoice attached. It is worth being specific about what changes.

It means single tenancy: your compute is yours, not a slice of a box you share with strangers whose traffic spikes become your problem. It means the people who designed your platform are the people who operate it, and the people who answer at 3am — one in-house UK team, not a first-line script in another timezone. And it means your infrastructure and your data physically stay in our Manchester facility, under UK law.

It also means we will tell you when you do not need it. A workload that runs happily on a £20 VPS should run on a £20 VPS.

Bring your own hardware, or let us build it

Not every enterprise estate wants a managed platform. If you already own the kit, colocation puts it in our rack on our network, with remote hands when you need them. If you want the machine but not the compromise of a stock build, custom bare metal is specified to your requirements and racked single-tenant.

The three approaches mix. It is normal for an estate to run a private cloud for production, colocated hardware for something that cannot be virtualised, and a replicated pair for the database underneath it all.

Data sovereignty is a design decision, not a checkbox

If your data sits with a US-headquartered provider, it is reachable under the US CLOUD Act regardless of which region you picked in their console. For a lot of UK organisations — public sector, healthcare, legal, finance, anyone holding personal data they are accountable for — that is a governance problem they inherited without choosing it.

Everything we run for you is hosted in our Manchester facility on infrastructure we own, operated by staff in the UK, under UK law. The mail filtering is our own Proxmox Mail Gateway cluster rather than a foreign SaaS. The management network is private. When you need to evidence where data lives and who can reach it, the answer is short and it is checkable.

How an enterprise engagement runs

Quote-based does not mean slow or vague. It means we size it properly before anyone commits.

  1. Scope

    We go through the workload, the uptime target, the recovery objectives and any compliance obligations you have to evidence. If something you are asking for will not actually help, this is where we say so.

  2. Design

    You get a proposed architecture with the reasoning attached — what is single-tenant, what is replicated, where the failure domains sit, and what it costs to run. Written down, so it can be reviewed by someone who was not in the call.

  3. Build and migrate

    We build the platform and move you onto it. Migration from your current provider is planned as part of the project rather than left to you at the end.

  4. Operate

    The same team runs it: monitoring, patching, firewall policy, replication health and capacity. You keep one escalation path to engineers who already know your estate.

Where it runs

A Tier III certified data centre in Manchester, on our own AS215262 network — multi-homed and LINX-peered, so UK users reach you over short paths rather than via London and back.

We are a RIPE Local Internet Registry, which means addressing and routing are ours to manage rather than something we rent from an upstream and have to ask permission to change.

Fibre uplinks and QSFP ports on a switch in a UKNode rack in Manchester.
Our kit · Manchester
In-house, in person
Redundant uplinks, patched and documented.
Who runs it

One team,
from design to 3am.

The engineer who designs your platform is the engineer who racks it, and the one who answers when something needs attention. There is no handover to a support tier that has never seen your estate.

  • In-house UK NOC — no offshored first line, no ticket triage by script.
  • Hardware we own, racked by our own engineers in our own hall.
  • Firewall policy, replication health and capacity managed as part of the service.
  • One escalation path to people who already know how your estate is built.
AS215262
RIPE LIR
Tier III
Manchester DC
LINX
Peered

Frequently asked,
plainly answered.

Cannot find your question? Ask our team directly — replies come from real UK engineers, usually within the day.

Single tenancy, predictable cost and UK jurisdiction. Public cloud gives you shared hardware, performance that varies with your neighbours, and a bill that moves with usage. A dedicated private cloud gives you known hardware, a fixed quoted cost, and data that stays in our Manchester facility under UK law.
Because sizing it honestly means understanding the workload first. Publishing a price would mean either inventing a package you do not need or quoting the cheapest thing and revising it later. We scope, design and price it before you commit to anything.
Yes — migration is planned as part of the project rather than left to you at the end. That includes large estates, virtual-machine fleets, big mailstores and physical moves. Our migration service covers the method in detail.
In our Tier III certified Manchester data centre, on infrastructure we own, operated by our UK-based team. Management access runs over a private out-of-band network rather than the public internet, and mail filtering runs on our own Proxmox Mail Gateway clusters rather than a foreign SaaS platform.
The team that designs and builds your platform is the team that operates it, so escalation reaches engineers who already know your estate rather than a first line reading a script. We are a small in-house UK NOC, which is the whole point.
Yes. Managed firewalls, replication, out-of-band access, business VPN and cloud antispam are all deployable on their own, including in front of infrastructure you already have. Plenty of estates start with one and add to it.
Colocation puts it in our rack on our network with remote hands available, and it can sit alongside a private cloud or replicated pair we run for you. Mixing owned and managed hardware in one estate is normal.
The 14-day money-back guarantee covers new shared hosting and VPS. Dedicated servers, colocation and custom enterprise builds are quote-based and excluded — terms are agreed in writing before any commitment, so there are no surprises either way.

Talk to an architect, not a form

Tell us the workload, the uptime target and the compliance posture you have to satisfy. We will design the platform, tell you honestly what it needs, and quote it.